On occasion one reads something which reveals absolute
madness has infected the brains of some in the US Senate.

Today this writer became aware of a Senate bill entitled,
"Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act ", DASKA of
2019, numbered S-1189 that has been introduced in the Senate which..."require
the Secretary of State to determine whether the Russian federation should be
designated as a state sponsor of terrorism and whether Russian-sponsored armed
entities in Ukraine should be designated as foreign terrorist
organizations". [1]

That's right it's a bi-partisan measure that reveals these
people have gone completely off the rails.

It's bad enough Trump recently placed Iran's Revolutionary
Guard, part of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, an integral part of the
Iranian government, on its terrorism list and Iran reciprocated placing the US
Central Command, CENTCOM, on its terrorism organization list, now we get a bill
in the US Senate designating Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.

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Here's some of the personal comments of the Senate's
co-sponsors of the DASKA bill:

Gardner - "Putin's Russia is
an outlaw regime that is hell-bent on undermining international law and
destroying the US-led liberal global order."

Menendez - "President Trump's
willful paralysis in the face of Kremlin aggression has reached a boiling point
in Congress."

Graham - "Our goal is to
change the status quo and impose meaningful sanctions and measures against
Putin's Russia. He should cease and desist meddling in the US electoral
process, halt cyber-attacks on American infrastructure, remove Russia from
Ukraine, and stop efforts to create chaos in Syria."

Cardin - "Congress continues
to take the lead in defending United States security against continuing Russian
aggression against democratic institutions at home and abroad."

Shaheen - "This legislation builds
on previous efforts in Congress to hold Russia accountable for its bellicose
behavior against the United States and its determination to destabilize our
global world order."

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This would be laughable if it weren't so serious.
"Destabilize our global world order, Russian aggression, Kremlin
aggression, create chaos in Syria"? C'mon.

When it comes to destabilizing the world order, it's the US
that's the world leader on that score. As for chaos in Syria, it was the US
invasion of Iraq in 2003 and subsequent debacle that expanded al Qaeda, created
ISIS in Syria , the CIA sponsoring and arming these jihadist mercenaries
responsible for creating the chaos in Syria against the government of President
Bashar Assad. The war caused a subsequent flood of refugees fleeing the
maelstrom escaping and flowing into Europe causing many Europeans to reject the
mostly Syrian Arab refugees entering their countries.

These events didn't happen in isolation and disconnected; it
was a chain reaction of perpetrated horror upon horror inflicted on innocent
people caught in something none of their doing.

Haven't you heard tne news? The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! The new, or renewed, (or however one chooses to describe it) Cold War is here. One must admit that after the collapse of the USSR the scramble to invent new "enemies of the State" produced some pretty flimsy, even laughable excuses for the continued U.S. wars of aggression (except the victims of the wars created to fight them did not laugh). These included the War on Drugs and, finally, thanks to the gift to the neocons and neoliberals of 9/11, a really saleable product called the War On Terror, created because a band of criminals decided to create a little blowback to the mass murders of the U.S. in their areas of the world. But even that pretext has grown a bit stale with a lot of folks who are belatedly beginning to see the fraud of that pretext as well. So we are now back to the old reliable enemy, Russia. After all, a LOT of money and energy has been invested in the red baiting by the right wingers in this Country. And most folks still believe the propaganda. You know, it is just too good to pass up the opportunity to start new wars (and loot the Treasury to fund them) on the old reliable rationale of fighting the Russians....or godless communism, or whatever label the marketing people decide to place on them. So don't take the statements of the thieves who occupy the Congress seriously. They are just serving their real constituents and benefactors, the 1% who are busily looting the Treasury. Move along now, nothing to see here, just business as usual. You know, fraud and theft...and to hell with the interests of the people. And the right wing Democrats like Mendendez are, as always, aligned with their Republican buddies who are on board with the same tasks and objectives. They are scum from the same cesspool. There is no difference. They are repulsive and dishonest. But they know what they are doing. They are stealing from the people.

Submitted on Thursday, Apr 25, 2019 at 9:28:55 PM

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